BRAZIL HAS A BLAST
Team Brazil lights up the sky over English Bay Wednesday during the second night of the 2012 Honda Celebration of Light. The annual summer fireworks festival concludes Saturday with Team Italy. JENNIFER GAUTHIER/FOR METRO

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Young offenders

RCMP policy
discouraging
dogs’ use on
youth has no
teeth: Pivot

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Canucks centre to
march with Pride

Manny Malhotra speaks to the media after defeating the Boston Bruins in Game Two of the 2011 NHL Stanley Cup Final at Rogers Arena last June. RICH LAM/GETTY IMAGES

Fighting for equality in Quoted
sport. Manny Malhotra
“I think we’ll have an openly gay NHL player within
says everybody has a
right to play in whatever the next two years.”
You Can Play co-founder Patrick Burke
game they love
KATE
WEBB

kate.webb@metronews.ca

Canucks centre Manny Malhotra will march in the Vancouver Pride Parade this Sunday
in support of the LGBTQ community and You Can Play, an
organization dedicated to eliminating homophobia in sport.
“I’m thrilled to be able to
show my support for You Can
Play,” said Malhotra in a statement released by the Canucks
organization Wednesday.
“It’s paramount that equality in sport, and beyond, be-

comes the norm. Everybody
has the right to play the game
they love. I am excited to share
this message of equality and
show my support this Sunday.”
You Can Play co-founder
Patrick Burke, whose father
is former Canucks GM Brian
Burke and whose brother
Brendan made international
headlines when he came out
in 2009 while being the student manager for the Miami
University hockey team, will
join Malhotra in the parade.
He said the countdown is
on to the watershed moment
when the first openly gay professional hockey player makes
his debut.

“Sports is generally seen
as the last bastion of organized secular homophobia, and
there’s a fear that the first
male who does come out while
he’s playing will be harassed or
ridiculed, and we don’t believe
that’s true,” Burke told Metro.
The formation of his
Denver-based organization in
March is part of the reason he
thinks the timeline is shrinking by the day. Canucks Ryan
Kesler, the Sedins, and about
50 other NHL players have also
helped, he said, by publicly
expressing their support for
changing the culture of locker
rooms and spectator areas.
“I choose to believe that

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(closeted professional athletes)
are excited by what You Can
Play has done — that they’re
taking this off-season to get
used to us and to make sure
that we’re not going anyplace.
And I think in the next year or
so when they realize that the
hockey community is ready for
it, they’ll feel safe coming out,”
Burke said.
“I think it’s going to be a
very inspirational and uplifting time, but I also think those
athletes really underestimate
just how much it’s going to
mean to the next generation,
that there are kids out there
whose lives are going to be
saved by that moment.”
The Pride Parade kicks off
at noon Sunday in the
West End.

NEWS

Vancouver’s Pivot Legal
Society is urging the RCMP
to enact a policy requiring
officers to avoid siccing
dogs on suspects known to
be youths, and only then if
the youth presents a clear
threat of serious harm,
following several cases of
children being bitten.
Sgt. Rob Vermeulen, a
senior RCMP spokesman,
told Metro via email that
officers are already advised
not to use dogs when the
offender is known to be a
youth and the offence or
threat is minor.
But Doug King, a lawyer
with the Pivot Legal Society, wants to see a formal
policy with some teeth. He
claimed officers in Prince
George recently admitted
to him the RCMP’s dogsquad use policy is under
review, after a 12-year-old
girl linked to an altercation
involving bear spray was
bitten in Prince George
May 11. She required 20
stitches and the family
filed a grievance with the
RCMP complaints commissioner, alleging the officer
knew the girl was a youth.
The Society sent a letter
Wednesday to Ron Field,
the provincial director
of the RCMP police dog
service, calling on him to
bring in a formal policy to
prevent and punish such
incidents.
“The justice system
treats youth differently
because there’s a recognition that the youth don’t
fully understand the consequences of their actions all
the time, especially when
you’re talking about a
12-year-old,” said King.
Vermeulen did not
respond when asked for
confirmation the RCMP’s
policy is under review.

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but along that road
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endure a bit of pain.
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Guilty plea. Man fined
$1,500 for crash that
killed two brothers,
paralyzed a third
A man accused of causing a
crash that killed two brothers and left a third paralyzed has been fined $1,500,
but a judge did not issue a
driving ban.
Ryan Miller may still be
banned from driving by the
superintendent of motor
vehicles for the November
2008 crash in the HOV lane
of Highway 1 near the Port
Mann bridge, just east of
Vancouver.
This week, Miller, 31,
pleaded guilty to driving
without due care and attention. The sentencing judge

said the crash occurred because of a momentary lapse
in judgment.
All three boys were sitting in the third row of
the family van when their
mother stopped the vehicle
in the HOV lane as smoke
started to pour through the
vents.
Police
say
a
BMW
rammed the vehicle, injuring two adults and killing
Andrew Moeller, 9, and his
brother Matthew, 6, and
leaving eight-year-old Karl
Moeller paralyzed.
THE CANADIAN PRESS

Enbridge pipeline.
B.C. residents oppose
Northern Gateway: Poll
Almost three in five British Columbians oppose Enbridge’s proposed Northern
Gateway pipeline, a survey
by Angus Reid revealed
Wednesday.
The poll found that
while more than one-third
of B.C. residents are completely against the pipeline, 24 per cent of people
say they could change their
mind if certain economic or
environmental considerations were met.
Among those five conditions — unveiled last week
by B.C. Environment Minister Terry Lake — people
were more likely to support the pipeline if worldleading marine and on-land
Public health

B.C. bracing for
bump in West
Nile cases
Warming temperatures
could increase the risk of
West Nile Virus, particularly in the Okanagan
and Fraser Valley, the
B.C. Centre for Disease
Control warned Wednesday.
The virus, which is
passed to humans from
birds through mosquito
bites, has not been found
in B.C. this year, but it
has been reported in
Washington, Oregon,
Manitoba and Ontario.
About 20 per cent of
infected people develop
symptoms that include
fever, fatigue, headaches
and swollen lymph
glands. In rare cases it
can cause inflammation
of the brain or paralysis.
Metro

oil-spill prevention and response systems were established.
Opposition to the Northern Gateway pipeline was
strongest in the North and
Vancouver Island.
The same poll, which
surveyed 804 random B.C.
Angus Reid Forum panellists, found less resistance
to a separate proposal to expand the capacity of Kinder
Morgan’s existing Trans
Mountain pipeline.
Exactly half of British
Columbians were opposed
to expanding capacity of
the Trans Mountain pipeline, which carries oil from
Edmonton to Vancouver.

Thousands of Parisians bond at Dîner en Blanc at the Louvre in Paris in 2011. Contributed/Dîner en Blanc

“I really wanted to have people look at the photos
from the global website and go, ‘Wow. That’s
Vancouver.’”
Tyson Villeneuve, host of Vancouver’s Dîner en Blanc

Jeff Hodson/metro

Accident

Knight Street
crash marks city’s
10th traffic
fatality of 2012
A 62-year-old Vancouver
woman died on
Wednesday when the car
she was riding in was
struck broadside by
a minivan at the
intersection of Knight
Street and East 20th
Avenue.
The driver and the
passenger of the car
were taken to hospital,
but the woman did not
survive her injuries.
The driver of the
minivan and her two
young children were
examined by paramedics at the scene and
released.
The death is the 10th
traffic-related fatality in
Vancouver this year.
Metro

Kate
webb

kate.webb@metronews.ca

One of Paris’s hautest annual
events, Dîner en Blanc (Dinner
in White), is coming to Vancouver, and already more than
700 people have tickets.
Part upscale picnic, part
monochromatic flash mob,
Dîner en Blanc will bring 1,200
people together for an outdoor meal enjoyed with tables,
chairs and linen at a location
kept secret until one hour be-

fore the event.
“It’s the essence of joie de
vivre,” says Tyson Villeneuve,
the French host of Vancouver’s
Dîner en Blanc, set for Aug. 30.
“For four hours, friends
and complete strangers come
together all dressed in white
for a pop-up sophisticated picnic and dinner, and then drink
wine, drink champagne and
have a good time. It’s about
good food, good people, good
atmosphere, and then they
leave and take everything with
them.”

Dîner en Blanc began in
1988, and has since spread
from France to more than
15 countries. Four years ago,
Montreal became the first
North American city to host
one, and this month Toronto
and Quebec City will also host
Dîners of their own.
Villeneuve didn’t offer any
hints about where Vancouver’s
will be held, other than to say
it will be in a beautiful spot.
“In Paris, they’ve done it
on the Champs-Élysées, where
it started — there’s 15,000

people that go every year in
Paris — they’ve done it in front
of the Louvre museum, they’ve
done it in front of the Eiffel
Tower, in front of Notre Dame,
all these iconic locations,” he
said.
“Taking after Paris, I really
wanted to have people look
at the photos from the global
website and go, ‘Wow. That’s
Vancouver.’”
Tickets, which must be
bought in twos, work out to
$30 each once all fees are accounted for. Buyers have the
option of bringing their own
entrees or adding on a gourmet meal cooked on-site by
Top Chef Canada winner Dale
MacKay, for $40 to $50. Wine
must be bought online and in
advance with tickets.
For details and tickets, go to
dinerenblanc.info.
Bon appétit!

Teens trading sex for drugs and
booze often live at home: UBC study
A University of B.C. study
suggests teenagers are trading sex for drugs and alcohol at a low but steady rate,
yet the vast majority attend
school and live at home with
their parents.
The study focuses on identifying sexual exploitation
and the harms associated

with unhealthy sexual relationships.
It examined students
in Grades 7 to 12 from 28
schools in the East Kootenays
region of eastern B.C., but
its author says the findings
are in line with studies conducted in Quebec, the U.S.
and Norway.

Elizabeth Saewyc says the
UBC study found just over
two per cent of teens who
have tried alcohol, marijuana
or other drugs have also
traded sex for those substances.
She says the research
shows that the kind of relationship students had with

their parents had an impact
on whether they were likely
to engage in the unhealthy
exchange.
Saewyc says parents who
talk to their teens about good
romantic relationships can
have a positive influence on
their children’s decisions.
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City street dancers to hit pavement
Vancouver’s first free outBehind the scene
door street dance festival
is grooving its way Saturday at Robson Square, with “Our main point is just
organizers hoping to intro- to show Vancouver what
duce and celebrate the local we do and that there’s
street dance culture.
Boris Khramtsov, a mem- this beautiful part of
ber of VanCity Lockers, said Vancouver that exists
he and his friend Jessey that most Vancouverites
Kwong, of popping crew
Groovy Gentlemen, came up know nothing about.”
with the idea to educate and
Boris Khramtsov, VanCity Lockers member,
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involve the audience as well on street dance culture in Vancouver.

as showcase the city’s most
talented street dancers.
He said breakers, hiphoppers, poppers, waackers
and lockers flock to Robson
Square to gather and practice and he’s seen the local
street dance culture grow in
the last four years.
“We’re talking about
how it’s strange that a lot of
people outside of Vancouver
know about Robson Square
and the street dance culture

here,” Khramtsov said.
“Our main point is just to
show Vancouver what we do
and that there’s this beautiful part of Vancouver that
exists that most Vancouverites know nothing about.”
Khramtsov said he hopes
that the inaugural festival
will result in similar events
in the future to give Vancouverites more opportunities
to stumble across street
dance.
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The
“ultimate
block
party” will feature free
dance classes, live freestyle
dance battles, and musical
performances by local upand-comers The Star Captains and Omar Khan.
The festival runs from 2
to 7 p.m. at Robson
Square.
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Wilson’s Landing

Vancouver seeks
volunteer spirit

Hillside fire now
doused: Officials

The City of Vancouver has
launched a program to
recruit volunteers for major
civic events and emergencies such as an earthquake.
Mayor Gregor Robertson says he’s hoping the
Vancouver Volunteer Corps
will build on the spirit of
volunteerism that was so
evident during the 2010
Olympics. The idea of an
ongoing volunteer group
was recommended in the
independent review of last
year’s Stanley Cup riot.
Members of the Vancouver Volunteer Corps would
be trained to help in major
public events such as the
annual Celebration of Light
festival. the canadian press

A forestry official says a
wildfire on the western hillside above Okanagan Lake
is now fully contained.
Michaela Swan says the
evacuation alert that went
into effect Monday for 70
properties has been lifted
after a crew doused the
blaze. The lightning-caused
fire near Wilson’s Landing
began last weekend and
grew to 30 hectares.
It charred about 27 hectares and burned to within
a kilometre of homes north
of West Kelowna.
The fire also temporarily cut access to Westside
Road, the only direct route
between West Kelowna and
Vernon. the canadian press

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A swan rests close to the shore of the Fraser River as a fishing boat
loaded with crab traps heads out to the Strait of Georgia in Richmond
on Wednesday. Darryl Dyck/THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Number of female
physicists growing
Making an impact.
15 female scientists to
speak at UBC’s second
annual Women in
Physics conference
Suzanne
ma

vancouver@metronews.ca

When it comes to physics, it’s a
man’s world.
The discrepancy begins as
early as high school, where
there are far fewer women than
men enrolled in high school
physics classes across Canada.
The male-female imbalance
continues to worsen through
university and in all career
stages.
“Girls are looking for opportunities to make a difference.
What we don’t communicate
well about fields like physics
and engineering, is that these
are careers where you can have
a great impact,” said Elizabeth
Croft, a professor of mechanical
engineering at UBC and an expert in the field of robotics.
Croft is one of 15 female scientists invited to speak at UBC’s
second annual Women in Physics conference this week. More
than 115 people are expected
to attend, many of them young
women enrolled in universitylevel science programs.
Conference organizers say
they want to encourage and
support young women who
may have an interest in pursuing careers in physics and other
sciences.
Anne Broadbent’s interest
in science actually began in
high school, but the postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for
Quantum Computing at the
University of Waterloo agrees
that such a career can be isolatSocial media

B.C. courts open
doors to tweeting
B.C. courtrooms will
no longer be tweet-free
zones, after a decision to
allow some limited use of
electronic communication
devices in the public gallery
during trials.
But it won’t be a tweetfor-all. Just lawyers and
accredited members of
the media will be allowed
to text during trials at the
Supreme and Provincial
courts. Members of the
public will only be allowed
to do so from the galleries
of the B.C. Court of Appeal.
A statement issued by
the courts says the new
rules reflect the importance
of social media and its influence in modern times.
the canadian press

Elizabeth Croft, a professor of mechanical engineering at UBC, poses with
Charlie, a PR2 robot that can navigate indoors at walking speed, lift 10
kilogram loads in each hand and reach up to a two-metre high shelf.
Courtesy of MARTIN DEE/UBC

ing for many women.
“This conference is really to
tell other young women that
they’re not alone,” said Broadbent, who was surrounded by
male classmates as she completed degrees at the University
of Waterloo and the University
of Montreal. “We hope to give
all the women out there a sense
that they’re part of a group and
a community.”

The community of women
scientists is growing, said Anadi
Canepa, a research scientist at
the National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics who
is working at the Large Hadron
Collider in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Women in Physics conference kicks off Thursday at
the Irving K. Barber Learning
Centre.

Arrests. Grenade launcher
seized from Nanaimo hotel
A grenade launcher was seized
by Mounties during a raid
Wednesday morning at a Nanaimo motel.
A 28-year-old man and two
women, aged 29 and 32, were
arrested after members of the
emergency response team entered a room around 10 a.m.
after investigators learned that
guests at the motel were possibly armed.

One of the women was arrested at the scene, while the
man and the second woman
were arrested at a different location shortly afterwards.
The grenade launcher,
which can be attached to the
barrel of a rifle, was the only
weapon found in the motel
room. Investigators are now
trying to determine whether
the weapon was stolen. metro

A grenade launcher seized from a motel in Nanaimo. Submitted/RCMP

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Kudos. Metro, Star proud
of Pan Am Games mission
Metro News and Star Media
Group are proud to announce
we have been named as the
official Print and Online
Media Supplier for the 2015
Pan American and Parapan
American Games in Toronto.
“We are excited about this
remarkable
opportunity,”
said Metro English Canada
President Bill McDonald.
“And we’re looking forward to providing Metro
readers with the Games highlights, features, personality
profiles and more — delivered with the urban attitude
our readers expect.”
Toronto Star Publisher and
Star Media Group President
John
Cruickshank
said:
“Our goal is to provide Canadians from coast to coast
with comprehensive, balanced news and in-depth information about the Games

through the Toronto Star and
our Metro newspapers in Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton,
Calgary, Saskatoon, Regina,
Winnipeg, London, Ottawa
and Halifax.”
The Pan American Games,
one of the world’s largest
multi-sport events, is held
every four years for athletes
of the Pan American Sports
Organization’s 41 member
states.
Featuring 48 sports, including all Olympic Summer
Games events, the Games
will draw more than 10,000
athletes and officials to Toronto and the Greater Golden
Horseshoe area.
The 2015 Games will run
from July 10–26, followed by
the Parapan American Games
on Aug. 7–14. For more information, visit Toronto2015.
org. metro

Pan Am flashback: Canada’s hoop and ribbon team rejoice after winning
a silver medal at the 2011 Games in Mexico. nathan denette/the canadian press
Needle found

Needle in food
jolts Air Canada
A “full investigation” is
underway at Air Canada
after a passenger found what
appeared to be a sewing
needle in a catered sandwich
aboard a flight from Victoria
to Toronto.
Airline spokesperson
Peter Fitzpatrick says Air

Canada is working closely
with its caterers to ensure
heightened security measures
are in place.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Dutch police
investigating how needles got
into six turkey sandwiches on
Delta Air Lines flights from
Amsterdam to U.S. cities last
month says it’s too early to
tell whether there’s any connection with the Air Canada
incident. the canadian press

metronews.ca
Thursday, August 2, 2012

Women’s ‘hairy legs’
add kick to a lawsuit
G20 case. Group sues
police for $1.4 million,
alleging sex-based
discrimination, false
arrest, battery — and
profiling by officer
A woman suing Toronto police over her arrest during the
G20 summit two years ago
said it’s not just about “hairy
legs” — a description applied
to female protesters by the arresting officer.
It’s more about sex-based
discrimination, said Alicia
Ridge, 27.
Ridge is part of a group of
seven people from Hamilton,
Ont., who sued Toronto police for $1.4 million Wednesday over their arrests during
the 2010 summit, claiming
false arrest, battery and malicious prosecution.
Eric Collins, left, who is not part of the lawsuit, shows Alicia Ridge, middle, sister Devon Ridge and Brian Jeffrey a
The women in the group
copy of Metro Toronto with the story of the lawsuit. rick madonik/torstar news service
claim they were profiled by
an officer who wrote in his arHow to spot a protester : Officer explains
rest notes that all the women and comments that were
had hairy legs — something put out there to create fear,”
he said he associated with Ridge said Wednesday after
A provincial police watchtold investigators he jotserving the lawsuit at police
G20 protesters.
dog, the Ontario Independted down the “hairy legs”
Ridge, who is a nurse and headquarters.
ent Police Review Director,
note as a general observaNone of the claims has
studying to become a midinvestigated and found the
tion, calling unshaven
wife, and also volunteers been proven or tested in
complaint “substantiated.”
female legs “one indicator
with a sexual assault centre, court. The Toronto Police Serthat I associated with prosaid the lawsuit was prompt- vices Board was not immeditesters down at the G20
• The officer. The watchdog’s
ed by allegations beyond the ately available to comment
that weekend.”
report found Const. James
on the lawsuit.
“hairy legs” comment.
Ure wrote that “all parties
The group alleges the po“My arresting officer, who
appear to be protesters …
• The police. A police spokeswas male, decided to do an in- lice wrongfully arrested them
and females all have hairy
person was not immediitial search of my body, which on June 27, 2010 — a day
legs.”
ately able to say whether
was just basically running his after vandals went on a ramany action had been taken
hand up the side of my leg page in downtown Toronto —
against the officer.
• His arrest notes. The officer
and grabbing my ass, alongT:10”as they emerged from a pizza
with sexualized comments parlour. the canadian press

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Bishop Cronyn Memorial Church in London, Ont., is nabbing attention with its sign that plays off the popular erotic
novel 50 Shades of Grey. john matisz/metro in london

A novel way to fill the pews
London, Ont. Church
plays off popularity
of 50 Shades of Grey
A church marquee is turning
heads in London, Ont., with a
reference to the popular erotic
novel 50 Shades of Grey.
For the past week, the sign
outside Bishop Cronyn Memorial Church has read “50 shades
of grace” — a play on the title of
E.L. James’ breakthrough book.
“The intention is that as
the book talks about intimate
relationships with an unusual

twist, so the sign talks about
an intimate relationship with
God that has a twist,” said Rev.
Raemond Fletcher, who got the
idea for the sign from a fellow
Anglican priest in town. “God’s
grace is not only of one shade.”
Fletcher said he hoped the
sign would also send a message
that the church is not out of
touch.
“The church, or at least
some churches, are not afraid
to recognize that sexuality
plays a significant role in modern society, but that it should
not be a matter of grey areas
but of grace.”

Backlash? What backlash?
• An allusion to a sexually

graphic book on the sign
of a church is the last thing
many would expect to see.
However, Fletcher said
there haven’t been any
complaints, and he wasn’t
worried.

• “Its popularity probably

comes from making the
once-secret an upfront
thing,” he said. “Have you
read the Bible lately? Very
sexually explicit at times.”

Julian Uzielli/metro in london

Nova Scotia. Defective ride injures 4
Four people went to hospital
Tuesday after a popular ride at
the Western Nova Scotia Exhibition malfunctioned in Yarmouth.
RCMP say metal pieces connected to a seat on a ride called
The Scrambler came loose.
Corp. Jen Clarke says pieces

struck two children on another
seat and the ride then stopped
abruptly.
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Hospital as aB:4.921”
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A woman and a 10-year-old
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boy who were in the broken

seat were taken by family members to the hospital later on.
All four of the people who
went to hospital were treated
for minor injuries and released.
The Elevators and Lifts division of the Nova Scotia Department of Labour will be investigating. the canadian press

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Belarusian generals ousted
after teddy-bear air invasion
Human-rights stunt.
Swedes risked being
shot down delivering
messages to people of
authoritarian country
It’s probably the first time in
history that teddy bears have
defeated generals.
Belarus’
authoritarian
President
Alexander
Lukashenko has sacked two
of the nation’s top defence
officials after two Swedish
advertising agency employees piloted a light plane into
the country’s heavily guarded
airspace, dropping 879 teddy
bears decked out in parachutes
and slogans supporting human
rights.
Officials in the ex-Soviet
state denied the July 4 incident until Lukashenko called

a meeting last week to scold
authorities for allowing such a
“provocation.”
The Belarusian ruler, nicknamed “Europe’s last dictator,”
on Tuesday fired the nation’s
air defence chief and the head
of the Border Guards service,
and reprimanded several other
top security officials, his office
said Wednesday.
Thomas Mazetti and Hannah Frey, the two Swedes
behind the stunt, said they
wanted to show support for
Belarusian human-rights activists and embarrass the country’s military — a pillar of
Lukashenko’s power.
The Swedes’ year-long preparations involved learning
how to pilot the three-seater
Jodel aircraft and purchasing
the plane. They financed the
$184,500 US cost of the stunt
working in a small advertising
agency. the associated press

Thomas Mazetti and Hannah Frey of Sweden show a teddy bear on a parachute as they pose for a photo in Berlin on Wednesday. The slogan on the note
affixed to the bear reads: “We support the Belarusian struggle for free speech.” Gero Breloer/the associated press

Murder highlights concerns for women’s safety

Palestinians hold Arabic signs on Wednesday that read, “Protecting women
from violence is an official and social responsibility,” right, and “Shame on us,
we Palestinians for killing our women.” Majdi Mohammed/the associated press

The brutal killing of a battered wife in front of horrified witnesses in an open-air
Bethlehem market prompted
angry accusations Wednesday that Palestinian police
and courts ignore violence
against women.
Nancy Zaboun, a 27-yearold mother of three, had her
throat slashed Monday after
seeking a divorce from her
abusive husband of 10 years.
The husband was arrested at
the scene and is the prime

suspect, West Bank officials
said.
The case reverberated
across Palestinian society because of the brutality of the
attack. However, violence
against women continues to
be tolerated — similar to attitudes in other parts of the
Arab world — and women’s
rights activists say abusive
husbands are rarely punished.
Zaboun was regularly
beaten by her husband,

32-year-old Shadi Abedallah,
at times so severely that she
had to be hospitalized, said
Khaula al-Azraq, who runs a
West Bank counselling centre
where Zaboun sought help.
Even so, Abedallah was
never arrested. Police only
made him sign pledges he
would stop hitting his wife,
said al-Azraq.
Zaboun was killed after
attending a hearing in her divorce case.

Cracking down}

• Last year, Palestinian
president Mahmoud
Abbas signed a decree
ending the practice of
treating killings within
a family with leniency.
• Zaboun’s husband could
face life in prison if
convicted.

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CBC wins
back rights
to Olympics

Rising grain prices

Get ready to
fork out more
for food
Grocery shoppers may need
to dig deeper into their
pockets as drought conditions inflate food prices well
into next year and maybe
beyond, Maple Leaf Foods
president and CEO Michael
McCain warned Wednesday.
Consumers likely won’t see
higher prices for its products until year-end, McCain
said. the canadian press

Bid approved. Sochi,
Rio Games will be
back in the hands of
the public broadcaster
after it lost out to
CTV in recent years

Market Minute

CBC executive Kirstine Stewart

The Olympic Games will return
to CBC in two years for the Winter Games in Sochi, Russia and
again in 2016 for the Summer
Games in Rio de Janeiro, the
International Olympic Committee announced Wednesday.
The decision puts the massive sports spectacle back in the
hands of the public broadcaster,
which last aired the Summer
Games in 2008 from Beijing.
Before that, CBC had aired 19
different Olympics over almost
60 years in Canada.
CBC executive Kirstine
Stewart said a long-established
Olympic track record helped it
nab the rights after two joint
proposals with Bell Media were

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rejected by the IOC.
Those pitches were said to
have fallen apart over money,
but Stewart vowed CBC’s solo
bid would not further cut into
the public broadcaster’s hefty
budget woes.
“We actually made sure that
this was, based on our prior
experience, a cost-neutral proposal,” said Stewart, predicting
broad coverage on CBC, SRC
and multiple digital platforms.
The announcement comes
a month after CBC and Bell
Media announced they would
no longer pursue the Games
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WestJet passengers willing
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notice a little less space in
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seats at business travellers
with an eye on revenue
growth, WestJet will
increase the distance between the back of the seat
and the one behind it to
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But that also means
the rest of the seats will
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32 inches of leg room, a
move WestJet says will
bring it “in line with
North American competitors.”
the canadian press

A U.S. judge says a lawsuit by two
tobacco companies can go ahead.
the associated press

Judge OKs
tobacco suit
against FDA
A U.S. judge has ruled
that a challenge by cigarette makers Lorillard
Inc. and R.J. Reynolds
Tobacco Co., alleging
conflicts of interest
in the Food and Drug
Administration advisory
panel’s review of tobacco products, can now
move forward.
the associated press

what may seem
foreign to you
is really just
nickelback
I never worry when I go on long
trips, because I know my father
will do the worrying for me.
John Mazerolle
As my upcoming camping
metronews.ca/hesays
trip to Scandinavia approaches,
I can be assured of such nuggets
of wisdom as “It will be cold/expensive/non-English there, you
know.”
These things aren’t said with any xenophobia on Dad’s
part. It’s more a presumption that I’m an idiot — which is
fair.
My father, after all, spent a good portion of his life watching me putting shirts on inside out, placing metal-rimmed
objects in the microwave and leaving ice cream out to melt,
and that was just my 20s.
It doesn’t help that the first time I ever went on a big solo
trip -— a cross-Canada train journey — I spent the final five
minutes before departure reassuring Dad I’d be fine, then
marched out of the station with conviction. Without a train
ticket, but with conviction.
Here, then, are my travel tips to help put Dad’s mind at
ease while simultaneously enlightening my readers. Also
to fill the space between the ads and pick up a paycheque.
You’re welcome.
• Don’t get so caught up in overseas preparations that you
forget to tie up loose ends here. I’ve been pre-spoiling
food and killing my plants so that I don’t have to worry
when I’m gone.
• If your passport is blank, be sure to write in a few countries yourself so you don’t seem lame.
• Burglars want inside your home while you’re gone, so
make sure the interior helps you come off well. Leave
what appear to be the notes of an epic, unfinished manuscript on a table, or write a complicated-looking mathematical formula on the wall. If you’re worried about
security, a cardboard silhouette “pacing in the window”
on a model train set has never failed anybody.
• If you have children, remember to leave them at home.
• Carry some emergency cash in a “neck wallet” under
your clothes. This works because no criminal has ever
seen one before and won’t think to take the big pouch
on your torso that appears to be filled with money.
• Take things slow and befriend the locals. You can’t get
to know a country by just whipping through it without
stopping for breath. I prefer to understand how a place’s
previous decades and even centuries of history has
impacted the current psyche of the people in a time of
economic uncertainty, and that takes three days.
• Many people are intimidated by new places, but be
confident and remember that millions of people already
live in the country you’re heading to, and they survive
despite rampant idiocy, which is a worldwide condition.
A good friend of mine visited me once when I was living
in Vienna and — in his first exposure to centuries-old
Austrian culture — saw a bar full of drunks belt out
Nickelback tunes. If those people can survive, so can you.
• Finally, call your Dad. Better yet, call my Dad. It might
help him relax.
he
says...

Hang on, the mayor’s stuck
Losing momentum

Politician left
hanging on a wire
A publicity stunt at a
public viewing area for
the Olympic Games went
awry on Wednesday,
leaving London Mayor
Boris Johnson stranded
some five metres off the
ground.
Johnson was left dangling in midair above the
crowds at east London’s
Victoria Park ­— clutching his Union Jacks — for
roughy five minutes
before rescuers came to
help him down.
the associated press

Proud moment

“If any other
politician anywhere
in the world was
stuck on a zip wire it
would be a disaster.
For Boris, it’s an
absolute triumph.”
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron

Flying high

No gold-medal
finish for Boris
Staff at the park eventually pulled him to safety
with a rope.
“Fortunately, the
mayor survived his first
zip wire experience,” a
statement from his office
said.
“Clearly the judges are
likely to mark him down
for artistic interpretation,
and unlike Team G.B.,
he won’t be bagging any
gold medals today but
he remains unbowed,” it
added. the associated press

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West Vancouver is many things
to many people. For me, it used
to be a hangout. These days, it’s
the place with nice houses that
I drive through to get to Whistler.
Yes, my days of ambling along
Ambleside are long gone, but it
just might be time for a return
visit: For the next 10 days, West
Van’s waterfront will be decidedly more musical.
It’s the 22nd annual Harmony
Arts Festival, and that means
more than 70 concerts, visual
arts events and outdoor films in
the neighbourhood.
Here are just a few highlights from the nightly BA
Blacktop Sunset Concert Series
at John Lawson Park. All shows
start at 7:30 p.m.
Luisa Marshall’s Tina Turner
Tribute (Friday):
I recently attended a birthday
party for one of Marshall’s
backup dancers and I can tell
you they’re a hoot to watch.
And know that I don’t use the
term “hoot” lightly.

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Santa Lucia (Saturday):
Do you like Latin funk? If so,
pull on some polyester and
check out this seven-piece act
that blends said funk with a
bit of rock and a little roll.
And, hey, I was just kidding
about the polyester. You will

be too hot.
Acres of Lions (Sunday):
Music B.C. says this group is
one of the top 20 bands in the
province — and who am I to
argue?
And...
There’s also an Art Market
running this weekend on Argyle Avenue along the waterfront, featuring more than
80 artists and artisans from
B.C., the Maritimes, Ontario
and the U.S. Look for pottery,
jewelry, fashion, paintings
and more.
Cinema in the Park lights
up the night this weekend
and next at John Lawson Park
(9 p.m. Friday and Saturday).
This year’s feature films:
Woody Allen’s Midnight in
Paris; 500 Days of Summer;
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of
Shadows; and Billy Elliot.
There’s lots of kids’ stuff
too: KinderTunes, Bobs &
LoLo, Chris Hamilton, and
Collingwood School Creative
Kids’ Day at John Lawson
Park, which will feature a visual arts imagination station,
a community art project, face
painting, concerts and more.

For a full list of events,
visit harmonyarts.ca

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METRO DISH
OUR TAKE ON THE WORLD OF CELEBRITIES
The Word

Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake

Jessica Biel
enjoying being
engaged

Pattinson
staying at
Witherspoon’s
ranch

Tom Cruise. all photos getty images

Tom Cruise
whisks Suri off to
Disney World
Tom Cruise is pulling out
all the stops for his time
with daughter Suri in the
wake of his divorce from
Katie Holmes — and he’s
not above a trip to the
Magic Kingdom.
Cruise headed to Walt
Disney World with his
daughter and other family
members this week, with
the six-year-old dressed up

the
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Monica Weymouth
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as a mermaid.
“Suri looked like she
was in heaven,” another
park-goer tells People magazine. “It was really cute. She
was walking around like
she owned the place, having the time of her life, and
Tom — who looked really
handsome — was talking
to her, was really engaging
with her.”

Loyal Word readers may
have noticed that Robert Pattinson and Kristen
Stewart have been absent
from our pages for two full
days. But all good things,
of course, must come to an
end.
After moving out of the
Los Angeles mansion they
were sharing, Pattinson has
surfaced at friend and Water

for Elephants co-star Reese
Witherspoon’s super sweet
California ranch, reports
Us Weekly. Pattinson remains “inconsolable” about
Stewart’s affair with Rupert
Sanders and is more than
a “total mess” than usual,
sources tell the magazine.
As for Kristen, she’s
found support with Panic
Room co-star Jodie Foster.
“As soon as she heard the
news, Jodie contacted Kristen,” a source tells RadarOnline. “Jodie told Kristen
to take no notice of the
media bashing and said if
she wanted to cry her heart
out to her she’s always available.”
Unless Jodie Foster’s got
a Malibu beach house up
her sleeve, we’re going to
have to hand this round to
Pattinson.

Jessica Biel and Justin
Timberlake probably aren’t
getting married soon, if
Biel’s level of preparation for the big day is any
indication. The actress says
she’s prepared “almost
nothing” for her wedding.
“I’m just being engaged.

I do feel like there is a lot
of time and nothing needs
to be rushed,” she says,
according to the Chicago
Sun-Times. “Everyone tells
me that being engaged is
the really special moment
— not that it gets bad when
you’re married.”

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Go for the glam.
2012’s Olympic
audience is seeing
peak athletic
performance paired
with front-line fashion
Who said sportswear can’t be
chic?
The athletes’ parade during
last week’s opening ceremony
might as well have been a
catwalk show, with some of
fashion’s biggest names — Armani, Prada, Ralph Lauren,
Stella McCartney — designing
the team uniforms.
Many in the fashion industry are already calling this the
most stylish Olympics ever.
The Italians must be some
of the best-dressed athletes,
scoring points with an understated monochrome kit in navy
and white by Giorgio Armani,
as well as waterproof blue designs for their sailing team by
Prada.
Stella
McCartney
has
worked with Adidas to design
the sporting gear and Village
wear (loungewear) for Britain’s
home team, though the outfits
weren’t on show Friday as athletes covered up in white and
gold tracksuits. McCartney’s
gear takes inspiration from the
iconic Union flag, but she said
she deconstructed it to make it
“more delicate and feminine.”
Meanwhile, the American
team may have gotten a bar-

Pool cool

Beauty in a
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How do you fashion-savvy readers feel about Canada’s Olympic kits?

•

Ukraine fashion show
shines rare spotlight on
the disabled.

The German team was
notable for not using their
national colours at all — instead, the kit was all hot pink
for the women’s jackets, and
cornflower blue for the men;
both were paired with white
trousers.

MATT DUNHAM/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

rage of bad press for its made in
China Ralph Lauren uniforms,
but the preppy designs were
still some of the most stylish in
the arena: clean-cut navy blazers, crisp white trousers, skirts,
and shoes, accessorized with
navy berets and blue, red and
white striped scarves.
The Jamaican team is in the
spotlight because of sprinter
Usain Bolt, so it’s fitting that it
also got a boost in the fashion
stakes this year.
Their kit, which feature the
national colours as well as lightning-like prints, were designed
by Cedella Marley, daughter of
Scouts honour: Ralph Lauren seemingly drew inspiration from those
‘always prepared’ club members of the past. MATT DUNHAM/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A low score for style?
Friday’s athletes parade also
showcased some surprising and
less popular designs.

Natalie Coughlin has been
in the pool as long as she
can remember, building the
muscles and learning the
discipline that would lead
her to 12 Olympic medals.
Many of the same things
that help in her training also help her beauty
routine.
“Eating well and taking
care of your body is the No.
1 most important thing for
good hair, good skin and
good nails,” she says. “Your
nutritional needs show
up on your hair, skin and
nails.”
Dryness is what she’s
usually battling, but she
has success with leave-in
conditioner as a weapon,
says Coughlin, who signed
earlier this year as a spokeswoman for hair-care brand
Pantene. She skips the
chlorine-removal shampoos, though, because she
finds they not only take
out the chemicals but also
moisture. When she does
her own hair and makeup,
she’ll wear her naturally
wavy hair down with “just a
touch of help from the curling iron.” She’ll wear brown
eyeliner and mascara – both
“don’ts” on days she is
swimming because they’ll
run. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Bob Marley, for Puma.
Other designers behind the
Olympics this year include luxury label Hermes, which has
designed riding jackets for the
French equestrian team, and
Salvatore Ferragamo, which
• Some Spanish athletes have
designed the official uniform
posted tweets grumbling
about their garish red and
for the European republic of
gold outfits, and there are
San Marino.
even Spanish Facebook groups
Some designers didn’t get
set up to campaign against
B:10”involved in the official Olymthe gear.
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T:10”
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Karl Lagerfeld, for example,
launched an Olympic-themed
womenswear collection called
Team Karl at London department store Selfridge’s —
though he reportedly said he
wouldn’t tune in to watch the
games. Meanwhile, high-street
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Modern looks.
Smooth-lined
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Incorporating
curves into a
modern space

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Karl Lohnes
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For far too long we have
seen the trend of squareedged furnishings highlighted in the best looking
homes and hotels. I have
always been a believer that
whenever a decor scheme
has square corners there
must be a few rounded ones
to create a healthy design
juxtaposition.
As we slowly see a
return to traditional lines in
furnishings we also see “the
curve” coming into modern
looks. Here’s a selection of
“curves-with-personality”
pieces that can help break
up the linear action in most
of today’s rooms; and in my
favourite colour combination of persimmon and grey.

• Use the 70/30

Ryder Rocking Chair,
$740, West Elm

Hartwell Sofa,
$1,999, Ethan Allen

Doily 8’ Rug, $800,
Anthropologie

Danish-inspired design
with simple lines and
natural materials turns the
idea of a rocking chair into
something of cool comfort.

An arched back and flared
arms help to modernize
the classic camel-back sofa.

Circularly shaped with
petal details and scrolled
cut-outs give us beautiful
curves for the floor.

rule to balance
the look in a
room: 70 per cent
square modern
lines, 30 per cent
curvy lines.

• Keep the colours

solid and the
patterns plain on
curvy furnishings.
Curvy lines and
curvy patterns
together are a
thing of the past.

• Round-topped

Round out the room

Haviland Chest,
$350, Pier 1

Isala Side Table,
$199, Ikea

A rounded banquette helps to
snuggly fit a round table and mid
century modern shapely chairs in a
family eating nook.

Painted stripes play off
the Bombe curves of a
stylish cabinet. A fun,
personality-filled accent.

Legs reminiscent of
Victorian stair spindles
serves up oversized
whimsy on a side table.

tables are good
choices because
they are easy to
get around in a
small space; no
corners to bump
into at night.

Corsett Leather
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A great combination for a
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toasted almonds. This cheesecake is not only delicious but
beautiful to present to your
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3. Dissolve the coffee in the
hot water. In the bowl of a
food processor, add the ricotta and cream cheese, egg,
sour cream, sugar, flour and
dissolved coffee. Purée until
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All the elements are
brought together in a sweet,
rich bar that, thanks to a generous helping of brown sugar,

stays moist and chewy with just
a hint of crunch on the outside.
Want to take it even further? Sprinkle the top with
flaked sea salt just before popping it in the oven. And if you
don’t like cashews, peanuts,
almonds or walnuts would be
good, too. Or maybe you want
to add a bit of each.

1. Heat the oven to 350 F. Coat

a 9-by-9-inch baking pan with
cooking spray.

2. In bowl, combine water, cof-

fee and vanilla. Stir until the
coffee granules dissolve.

tions and scraping down the
sides of the bowl. Stir in the
flour, then the white chocolate
bits and cashews.

4.

Spread the mixture evenly
into the prepared pan. Bake
3. Add the butter, brown sugar for 35 to 40 minutes, or until a
and salt. Use an electric mixer toothpick inserted at the centre
or whisk to beat until light andB:10”comes out clean. Cool, then cut
fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a into 9 squares.
T:10”
time, beating between addi- The Associated Press

Decor. Spruce up
your patio space
Astrid
Van Den Broek
Got a special outdoor event coming up? Need some
ideas on how to
spruce up your patio space?
Samira
Gagne,
manager, colour trend and
design for The Home Depot
Canada, shares her top tips
on dressing up your outdoor
space.

RETHINK YOUR
LIGHTING
Ditto the outdoor
flooded patio light.
Try a softer, subtler
touch in your outdoor lighting
plans.
“Use
lots of lighting
such
as
string lights from trees or
lanterns on a timer to keep
the party lively long after the
sun goes down,” she suggests.

DO A FURNITURE
INVENTORY
Be sure you have enough
space for guests to set down
their mojitos and dinner
plates. “Side tables
or small, knockdown foldable tables
are great pieces to have
around when you’re trying to create entertaining
stations like buffets and
kiddie tables,” says Gagne.
“Whether it’s for a party or to
set up all summer long, look
for unique cart-like foldable
tables for your entertaining
needs.”
Also, consider your outdoor seating situation …
perhaps it’s time to
move off your tired
patio table and six
chairs set? Maybe
modular seating is
the way to go. “You can
create an eclectic seating
and lounging environment using modular
seating,” advises Gagne. “Modular sets
help you turn unused corners
of your backyard into sum-

DON’T BE AFRAID
OF PRINTS
As far as prints and
patterns go, Gagne
suggests trying fresh
takes on your outdoor
space such as cabana
stripes, block floral
prints,
global
susani patterns
or the classic sand dollar prints. “Also, incorporate colour into your outdoor
spaces by using patterned
and coloured accessories
such as sunbrellas and decorative pillows,” she says.
But how can you use bold
colours and prints? “Treat
your outdoor living spaces as
an extension of your
indoor space. So
you’d exercise
the same care
in decorating your
outdoor spaces as
you would your indoor
ones,” she says.
Try layering your
neutral outdoor furniture with pops of bold
colour and patterns for a
fresh update.

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Barbecue P’s and Q’s
Astrid
Van Den Broek

Grilling options

For Metro

Do you bring beer or wine to
a barbecue? Can you bring
friends who are in town for
the weekend along?
While dinner parties have
a clear dining etiquette, do
the same rules apply to barbecues? We asked Louise
Fox, owner of The Etiquette
Ladies, to fill us in on bringing our best side to summer
cookouts.

FOR HOSTS ...
Be specific about invitation
details, notes Fox. “So if children are not invited, rather
than say “no kids,” say something like “Nancy and Rob,
take a break from your kids
and join us for a casual outdoor BBQ,” she says. “Also
indicate the start time, end
time, location, parking, if it
is a special occasion and ask
about dietary restrictions.”
Along with stocking your
ma In 4 Months
bathrooms with towels, soap
ur
and toilet paper, prep the
istance inside of your home if rain

The menu for grilling this
summer covers a wide assortment and includes everything
from pizza and fruit to fish,
chicken and veggies.
• There are many ways to

cook salmon. One is to
grill a salmon fillet or steak
on an oiled grill for five to
seven minutes in total. Consider smoking your salmon
on a cedar plank to add a
unique depth of flavour.

forces you to move the party
inside, says Fox.
Don’t forget that alcohol
consumption rests in your
hands. “Monitor your guests
alcohol consumption and
don’t over serve them, as you
could be held responsible if
an incident was to occur after
they leave your party,” says
Fox, who suggests looking
into a special occasion permit from your provincial liquor licensing board for large
groups of guests.

sound odd, the fire caramelizes the fruit and concentrates the flavours. Hard
fruits such as apples and
pears are easier to grill because they hold their shape.

and your favourite spices,
grill it and then top with
vanilla ice cream for a delicious summertime dessert.
• When grilling vegetables,

the possibilities are endless. Consider marinating
your vegetables with olive
oil. If you would like to kick
things up a bit, try other
flavoured cooking oils and
add your favourite herbs.

• Why not marinate your

fruit in your favourite
combination of spices and
alcohol? Let the fruit marinate in a mixture of rum or
brandy with brown sugar

FOR GUESTS ...
Even if your host insists you
should arrive empty-handed,
don’t. “For outdoor events
you could bring citronella
candles, a can of bug spray,
some bottled water or an outdoor plant for the garden,”
suggests Fox. “At least you
should bring something to
drink — a bottle of wine, cold
beer, a jug of iced tea or some
bottled pop.”
Don’t forget to help clean
up. Even if your host is the

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type to leave the dishes until
the next day, at least help
bring your dishes and other
accessories back inside.
And know when to head
home. “Sometimes hosts
have a very difficult time letting guests know it is time
to go,” says Fox. “If you hear
comments about “getting
up early” or “well, this was
a wonderful evening” or “I
guess we’d better call it a
night,” you should take a hint
and make a graceful exit.”

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MLB

New York
Yankees end
4-game skid
Robinson Cano hit a
grand slam in a seven-run
third inning, and New
York sent Zach Britton
to another shellacking
at Yankee Stadium in a
12-3 rout of the Baltimore
Orioles on Wednesday
that stopped a four-game
losing streak.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Adam Scott reacts to a missed par putt on the 18th green during the final round of the Open Championship on July 22 at Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Club in England.
After his tough loss at the British Open, Scott is still convinced there will be a major championship trophy with his name on it. HARRY HOW/GETTY IMAGES FILE

Scott ready for his
next shot at a major
Golf. Australian
blew four-shot lead
at British Open last
month, but believes he
will get a major trophy

Mobile sports

There’s no silver claret jug for
Adam Scott, only a silver lining.
For two days after the British Open, where Scott lost a
four-shot lead with four holes
to play, he holed up at his home
in the Swiss Alps and tried to
digest what went wrong. The
numbness he felt that Sunday
evening, when Ernie Els was
introduced as the champion
golfer of the year, stayed with
him. He didn’t beat himself up.

He didn’t curl up in a corner. It
was a time of quiet reflection.
It’s when he went to the golf
course at Crans-Sur-Sierre to hit
balls that his outlook brightened considerably.
“I hit the first few balls,
and I hit them nice,” Scott said
Wednesday. “And that was kind
of a reminder that it’s not horrible and I don’t know how to
play golf anymore. It was just
four holes that I’ll have to learn
from and be tougher on myself
next time I’m in that position.”
That’s what Scott took away
from Royal Lytham & St. Annes.
He is convinced there will be a
next time. He’s convinced there
will be a major championship
trophy in his name.
Scott still hasn’t seen replays of that final hour. The soft

NHL. Flyers reward
Laviolette with 2-year deal
The gymnast whose
career record for most
Olympic medals was
broken by Michael
Phelps says she doesn’t
mind that the American
swimmer has surpassed
her. Larisa Latynina,
who won 18 medals
from 1956 to 1964 while
competing for the
Soviet Union, was in
London on Tuesday to
watch Phelps, and she
says she was happy for
him. Scan the code for
the story.

Peter Laviolette led the Flyers
within two wins of a Stanley
Cup championship. Philadelphia is willing to give their
coach a few more years to
finish the job.
Laviolette and the Flyers
agreed Wednesday to a twoyear contract extension that
will take him through the
2014-15 season.
Philadelphia has the
third-most wins in the
Eastern Conference (122),
behind only Pittsburgh and
Washington (127 each) since
Laviolette was hired to take
over for John Stevens in
December 2009.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

bogey on the 15th. The threeputt bogey on the 16th. Belting
a pure tee shot on the 17th,
only to hit 6-iron to the left of
the green to set up another
bogey. And a 3-wood into the
bunker on the 18th, which led
to one final bogey to finish one
shot behind.
“Look, I can imagine how
it probably looked,” Scott said.
“If it was me watching somebody else, I certainly could
feel for them. But for me ... I’m
disappointed that I didn’t win
from that position, but I left
that major the same as I’ve left
every other one — and that’s
empty-handed.”
Different from the others
was remembering the first 68
holes that put him in that position.
Soccer

Toronto FC win
big in Champions
League opener
Reggie Lambe of Bermuda
scored twice to help Toronto down El Salvador’s
Aguila 5-1 on Wednesday
in the Group One opener
of the CONCACAF Champions League.
Luis Silva, Terry Dunfield and Ryan Johnson
also scored for Toronto in
front of a crowd of 5,324.
After missing a connecting flight and spending the night in Miami,
Aguila didn’t arrive in
Toronto until a few hours
before kickoff.

Peter Laviolette GETTY IMAGES FILE

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Scott had never seriously
contended in a major until
last year at the Masters, where
he made clutch putts over the
closing holes and played well
enough to win until Charl
Schwartzel made history at Augusta National by closing with
four straight birdies to win by
two.
And now the Open.
His next chance is a week
away.
Scott headed to Kiawah Island earlier this week to see
The Ocean Course, where the
PGA Championship is being
held for the first time.
First up is the Bridgestone
Invitational, where a year ago
Scott claimed his first World
Golf Championship.

Robison Cano

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CFL

Als’ Emry and
Lions’ Reddick
fined for Week 5
incidents
The Canadian Football
League says it has assessed
fines against two players for
incidents from last week’s
action.
Montreal Alouettes linebacker Shea Emry was fined
for an illegal block below
the waist on a special-teams
play during last Friday’s
game against the Toronto
Argonauts.
And BC Lions linebacker
Anthony Reddick was
penalized for a late hit
on Calgary Stampeders
quarterback Kevin Glenn
during last Saturday’s game.
The league does not
disclose player fine
amounts.
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Boxing. Mayweather Jr.
due for release from jail
Floyd Mayweather Jr. is due
for release from a Las Vegas
jail by the weekend after
serving two months in a domestic battery case.
Records show that the
35-year-old
undefeated
champion is due for release
Friday from the Clark County Detention Center.
Las Vegas police Officer
Jose Hernandez said Wednesday that Mayweather Jr.
was granted time off his 90day sentence for work and
good behaviour.
Mayweather Jr. surrendered for jail on May 1 after
pleading guilty in December to misdemeanour char-

Plea deal

With the plea deal,
Mayweather Jr. avoided
a trial on felony charges
that could have landed the
boxer in prison for a maximum of 34 years.

ges in a September 2010
scuffle with his girlfriend,
Josie Harris, while two of
their children watched.
Mayweather Jr. promoter
Leonard Ellerbe did not respond this week to messages. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SPORTS: London Games

metronews.ca
Thursday, August 2, 2012

Rowing their way to
redemption in London
Men’s eight. After
last-place showing in
heat over weekend,
Canadians come back
to earn silver in London
Credit the Canadian men’s
eight with a horrendous start
and courageous finish to the
Olympic regatta.
After finishing last in their
opening heat last Saturday,
the Canadians did a lot of soulsearching, absorbed a tonguelashing from veteran coach
Mike Spracklen and then got
their act together again.
The roller-coaster ride led
to a silver medal Wednesday at
Eton Dorney, a tribute to hard
work, good character and terrific coaching.
The Canadians won rowing’s marquee event at the
2008 Games in Beijing but only
had three returning members
of that crew — Toronto’s Andrew Byrnes, Victoria’s Malcolm Howard and coxswain
Brian Price of Belleville, Ont.
— in the London boat.
The other members of the
Canadian eight are Will Crothers and Rob Gibson of Kingston, Ont., Jerry Brown of Cobourg, Ont., Conlin McCabe of
Brockville, Ont., Doug Csima
of Oakville, Ont., and Gabe
Bergen of 100 Mile House, B.C.
Since Beijing, the German
eight has ruled the waves going unbeaten in almost four
years.
Germany was unstoppable
again, winning in five minutes
48.75 seconds ahead of Can-

“At 750 (metres), I said, ‘Guys, put on your hard hats. It’s
time to go to work.’ And they went to work. It was all
about just work, work, work. Every stroke.”
Canadian coxswain Brian Price

ada in 5:49.98 and Britain at
5:51.18.
“We knew we’d have to
have an amazing race to get on
the medal podium,” said McCabe. “Like to get the bronze,

even.”
Once on shore Wednesday,
the Canadians celebrated as if
they had won. It wasn’t quite
worst to first, but it was close.
Canada started sluggishly at

Cycling. Wiggins sets new standard for
British Olympians with gold in time trial
There was no better place for
Bradley Wiggins to sit than on
a throne.
The 32-year-old Londoner
completed his coronation as
one of Britain’s top sports figures on Wednesday by winning
gold in the men’s time trial at
the London Games, just 10 days
after becoming the first British
rider to win the Tour de France.
It was Wiggins’ fourth
Olympic gold — after three previous ones in track cycling —
and gave him a British record
seven overall. He had shared
the mark of six medals with
Steve Redgrave — although the
rowing great won five golds.
After pedalling his way
through a sea of flag-waving
and sideburn-wearing fans
toward the former royal residence of Hampton Court and
a gold that never seemed in
doubt, Wiggins was ushered

Bradley Wiggins in London on
Wednesday. The associated press

from the finish line toward a
very fitting seat — one of three
gilded thrones where the top
finishers waited to see if they
had won a medal.
Wiggins didn’t have to
sit there for more than a few

seconds, as the only remaining threat — Fabian Cancellara
— was well out of reach of his
time.
Wiggins quickly jumped
back on his bike and rode down
the course again to share his
victory with his raucous supporters.
“I wanted to go and see my
wife and all the people that
had come to stand there on
the roadside,” Wiggins said.
“We all know about the Olympic ticketing.... The great thing
about cycling is it’s free to come
and watch. All the real fans are
out there, if you’re not lucky
enough to come in and get a
ticket. It was nice to go back out
and roll up and down.”
Victoria native and Giro
d’Italia winner Ryder Hesjedal
was Canada’s lone competitor
in the event. He finished 28th.
The associated press

the regatta, finishing last in its
heat behind Germany, Britain
and the Netherlands.
Spracklen said he ended a
no-holds-barred meeting on
Sunday by making an unusual
request.
“I can’t remember it wordfor-word, but what I said was,
‘I have one last request and
I’ve never asked anyone before
— win the race for me,”’ said
Spracklen.
The Canadians changed tactics as a result.

Instead of going after the
Germans in the final on Wednesday, the Canadians focused
on their start and then looked
to work off other crews. They
disposed of Australia, then the
Dutch, then Britain.
“Right from our start, I
knew this was going to be
good,” Brown said. “(We) just
had to keep pushing. The
boat’s on a rail — just keep
adding to it. We’ve got so many
horses in that boat.”
The Canadian press

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Cycling

Hughes finishes
5th in final ride
With the finish at Hampton
Court Palace approaching, Canadian cyclist Clara
Hughes furiously worked
her pedals as she made one
last push for the line.
She did it all with a
smile on her face as she
soaked up the joy of competing on the Olympic stage
one last time.
Hughes capped an
incredible Olympic career
with a fifth-place finish in
the women’s time trial on
Wednesday. She was almost
a minute behind American
Kristin Armstrong.
Hughes was about 30
seconds away from reaching the podium at the
Games for a seventh time.
“I knew today, I knew
in the last week, in the
last month, that this is the
last time I would have the
chance to race in the Olympics,” Hughes said. “I’m
really proud of what I did.”
Hughes and former
long-track speedskating
teammate Cindy Klassen
share the honour of being
the country’s most decorated Olympians. Hughes
won two cycling medals at
the 1996 Games in Atlanta
and went on to capture four
more in speedskating over
the last three Winter Olympics. The canadian Press

Clara Hughes, during her final
Olympic ride on Wednesday.
Frank Gunn/the canadian press

Thursday’s 3 to watch

1

Women’s judo
Amy Cotton of Montreal takes to the judo
mat in the 78-kilogram
class. The 32-year-old
finished ninth at the
2004 Games in Athens.
Time: 7 a.m.
Channel: CTV

Women’s beach
volleyball
Canadian beach volleyball duo Annie Martin
and Marie-Andree
Lessard, pictured, look
for their first win after a
pair of losses. They take
on Italians Greta Cicolari
and Marta Menegatti.
Time: 4 a.m.
Channel: TSN

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metronews.ca
Thursday, August 2, 2012

Hayden fights off nerves
to claim his first medal
Hometown hero.
Swimmer from Mission
wins bronze in his
third Olympic Games
The most senior member on
Canada’s swim team conquered rookie nerves to capture his first Olympic medal.
Brent Hayden won bronze
in the 100-metre freestyle
Wednesday for Canada’s first
swim medal of the 2012 Summer Games.
After touching the wall
in 47.80 seconds, Hayden
turned, rose out of the water
almost to his waist to see the
scoreboard and then slapped

his right hand into the water
with joy.
“There are so many times
when you can dream of something, but a million out of a
million and one times it won’t
come true,” Hayden said.
“This was one of the things
that I was very fortunate as a
human being to have happen
to me.”
American Nathan Adrian
out-touched James Magnussen
for gold in 47.52, followed by
the Australian in 47.53.
Hayden grappled with
emotion and a complaining
back in the hours prior to his
race. The three-time Olympian
required three spinal adjustments from his medical team
to address his discomfort.

Quoted

“It was all about finding my inner strength and
feeding off my fiancée’s vibes from the stands.”
Brent Hayden will marry Nadina Zarifeh in Lebanon a week after the closing ceremonies in London

A first for Canada
• Hayden is the first

Canadian man to win an
Olympic medal in the
100-metre freestyle.

• The man who last swam

in a final, International
Olympic Committee
member Dick Pound,
hung the bronze around
Hayden’s neck. Pound
was sixth in the 1960
Olympics.

The Mission swimmer is
a world champion and world
silver medallist in the distance, but was about to swim
in his first Olympic final in
three tries.
“I just couldn’t help feeling
like ‘The best day of my life
feels like the worst day of my
life right now,’” he explained.
“I woke at 6 a.m. and my heart
pounding because I was think-

ing about the race.
“It took me a while to turn
that off and fall back asleep.
All throughout the day I kept
having these moments where
I’d kind of start to think about
the race and my heart would
start thumping and I thought
‘I’ve got to stay calm, I’ve got
to stay calm.’”
At 28, Hayden was more
than three years older than
Cesar Cielo, the next eldest in
the final.
The two veterans went
out quickly with Hayden
second to the Brazilian at the
50-metre split. But Adrian and
Magnussen went eyeball to
eyeball in the fourth and fifth
lanes and closed hard. Hayden
kept contact in the seventh
lane.
“I kind of had the urge to
kiss the starting block because
I just never knew I could love
Lane 7 so much,” he said.
“Tonight was (about) digging
down deep into my soul.”
the canadian press

Brent Hayden celebrates his bronze-medal win Wednesday in the 100-metre
freestyle at the Aquatic Centre in London. STEVE RUSSELL/TORstar news service

Canadian badminton duo reach medal round
Canada’s Alex Bruce and Michele Li, rear, play Australia on their way to winning their quarter-final match in women’s
doubles badminton Wednesday. The pair lost all three of their round-robin matches, but were re-entered in the tournament after eight players were expelled for trying to lose matches on purpose. Andres Leighton/the associated press

Record reaction. London Games
chairman ‘not sure’ Phelps the greatest
With 19 medals, Michael
Phelps is the most decorated
Olympian of all time. But the
greatest?
Not for Sebastian Coe.
Coe, the two-time gold medallist in the 1,500 metres and
head of the London Games, is
not ready to anoint Phelps as
the supreme Olympian.
“You can probably say that
clearly, self-evidently, in medal
tally he’s the most successful,”
Coe said Wednesday. “My personal view is I am not sure he is

the greatest, but he is certainly
the most successful. That goes
without saying.”
The American swam the
anchor leg of the winning U.S.
4x200-metre freestyle relay
Tuesday night to surpass Soviet
gymnast Larisa Latynina for
most career Olympic medals.
Latynina won 18 medals at the
1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics.
Phelps, who won a record
eight gold medals at the 2008
Beijing Games, is competing in
three other events in London

and can take the record further.
So who, Coe was asked,
would he pick over Phelps?
He started with a crack:
‘Well, modesty prevents me
from.... No. That’s a joke.
“This is the global pub
game,” said Coe, who won
his gold medals at the 1980
and 1984 Games. “Who is the
greatest Olympian of all time?
I could go around this whole
room, we’d all come up with
different interpretations on.”
the associated press

Men’s 100 freestyle — Brent Hayden, Mission,
B.C., won the bronze medal in 47.80.
Men’s 200 backstroke — Tobias Oriwol, Toronto, finished fourth in his qualifying heat in
1:58.06. He finished seventh in his semifinal
heat in 1:58.74 and did not advance to the final.
Men’s 200 individual medley — Andrew Ford,
Guelph, Ont., finished first in his qualifying heat
in 2:00.28. He finished seventh in his semifinal
heat in 2:01.58 and did not advance to the final.
Women’s 100 freestyle — Julia Wilkinson, Stratford, Ont., finished third in her qualifying heat in
54.16. She finished seventh in her semifinal heat
in 54.25 and did not advance to the final.
Women’s 200 breaststroke — Tera Van Beilen,
Oakville, Ont., finished seventh in her qualifying
heat in 2:27.70 and did not advance. Martha McCabe, Toronto, finished third in her qualifying
heat in 2:26.39. She finished fourth in her semifinal heat in 2:24.09. McCabe, finished seventh in
her final heat in 2:24.09 and advanced to the final.
Women’s 4x200 freestyle relay — Canada
(Barbara Jardin, Notre-Dame-de-Grace, Que.;
Samantha Cheverton, Lachine, Que.; Amanda
Reason, Toronto; Brittany MacLean, Toronto),
finished second in its final heat in 7:50.84.
Canada finished fourth in the final in 7:50.65.

BASKETBALL

Women — Canada lost to France 64-60.

JUDO

Men’s 90Kg — Alexandre Emond, Montreal,
lost to Winston Gordon, of Britain, in Ippon, Oguruma, in 1:43 in the round of 32.
Women’s 70Kg — Kelita Zupancic, Whitby,
Ont., lost to Lucie Decosse, of France, in Ippon,
Ko-soto-gari, in 4:31 in the round of 16.

SAILING

Men’s windsurfer — Zac Plavsic, Vancouver, is
in seventh place after the fourth race (36).
Men’s laser — David Wright, Toronto, is in
18th place after the sixth race (80).
Men’s 49er — Hunter Lowden, West Vancouver, B.C. and Gordon Cook, Toronto, are in 14th
place after the sixth race (50).
Women’s laser radial — Danielle Dube, Glen
Haven, N.S., is in 29th place after the sixth
race (126).
Women’s windsurfer — Nikola Girke, West
Vancouver, B.C., is in ninth place after the
fourth place (36).

finished 28th in the final in 56:06.18.
Women’s time trial — Clara Hughes, Glen Sutton, Que., finished fifth in the final in
38:28.96. Denise Ramsden, Yellowknife, finished 19th in the final in 41:44.81.

WEIGHTLIFTING
Women’s 69Kg — Marie-Eve BeaucheminNadeau, Quebec City, finished eighth in the final with a weight of 239 kilograms.

FENCING
Women individual sabre — Sandra Sassine,
Montreal, lost to Aleksandra Socha, of Poland,
15-7 in the round of 32.

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involved in a friend’s personal
problems but that would be a
big mistake. No matter how
much you think they need
help, the best thing you can
do is steer clear — for now.

Gemini

May 22 - June 21
The Sun in Leo is good for
Geminis but today’s full moon
could bring some kind of
setback. If travel or social
plans have to be changed,
there is no point getting mad
about it. Just go with the flow.

Cancer

June 22 - July 23
Today’s full moon takes place
in the wealth sector of your
chart, so you would be wise
not to take chances with
money, either your own or
other people’s. A little caution
is by far the best investment.

Leo

July 24 - Aug. 23
The Sun in your sign makes all
things possible but it doesn’t
get rid of those annoying
people who always seem to
be telling you not to take
risks. No one tells a Leo to do
anything and gets away with
it!

Virgo

Aug. 24 - Sept. 23
You may decide, with good
reason, that you don’t want to
take on extra duties on the
work front, and you are within
your rights to say so. You’re not
interested in doing more
— you want to do better.

23

Crossword: This and That

Libra

Sept. 24 - Oct. 23
There is a luck factor working
in your favour at the moment
but don’t take it for granted.
Today’s full moon will in some
way remind you that fate has
a tendency to change just
when we least expect it.

Scorpio

Oct. 24 - Nov. 22
You may be ambitious at the
moment but today’s full
moon could bring an
element of self-doubt into
your life. Scorpio, self doubt?
Is that possible? Yes it is, but
only in the short-term.

Sagittarius

Nov. 23 - Dec. 21
You may be tempted to slow
down and enjoy the fruits of
your success but while the
momentum is on your side
you really ought to make
the most of it. Do something outstanding today.

Capricorn

Dec. 22 - Jan. 20
The planets warn that nothing
is what it seems at the
moment, so make an effort to
read between the lines,
especially when there is
money at stake. Accept
nothing on trust — always
demand facts and figures.

Aquarius

Jan. 21 - Feb. 19
It does not matter how
worked up you get about
various injustices, you won’t
be able to change anything.
All you can do is take care of
your own life. Others will
follow your example.

52. Just
53. Some kids eat the
middle of this first
54. Rock group
55. President Lincoln and
namesakes
57. Contented comments
58. Encountered

Sudoku

How to play
Fill in the grid, so that every
row, every column and
every 3x3 box contains the
digits 1-9. There is no math
involved. You solve the
puzzle with reasoning and
logic.

Pisces

Feb. 20 - March 20
The best way to forget your
worries is to throw yourself
into your work. By focusing
your conscious mind on the
task at hand, you free your
subconscious mind to find the
answers for you. It won’t take
long. SALLY BROMPTON